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My older (by one year) sister, Lucyann, now 60, was diagnosed when she was 58. She was a well-liked (by peers and students) professor, a great daughter and the best sister anyone could have. She cared for my dad during the last 10 years of his life, while she was still teaching and/or working at the university, until his death about four years ago. During the last three years, we started to notice that she was angry a lot, particularly with my Mom, for whom she had absolutely no patience. She would not go to work and claimed headaches and/or mig

My mother-in-law has had Alzheimer's for quite a few years and although she has a lot of family support, it is difficult caring for someone with dementia and watching the disease take its toll. I took care of my father with Parkinson's Disease and dementia. I would not have traded the memories or time I have spent assisting them both with their daily needs.

It would be my second trip to the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. But my Mom had never been, so we decided to make my next trip there our vacation together. My Mom is my best friend, and I looked forward to watching her reaction to the quaint main street surrounded by all those beautiful mountains. She hadn’t been doing so well since she’d had a car accident a few years before. Trouble remembering where she put things, trouble formulating sentences. I told myself then that she was just growing older.